[Elecraft] Elecraft[low power] We span the Atlantic

[tomk7zz .]

Hi I am Tom Meier wife (K7zz).  Tom died last Saturday.  I would greatly
appricate you removing him from your email list.

Thank you


Kathy Meier


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Doug Turnbull <turnbull at net1.ie> wrote:

> Dear OMs and Yls,
>
>        Okay the subject line is rather "hoaky" but I write to tell you that
> a wet string sometimes works.    Brought up in the sixties on radio, I
> remember the bunkum adverts for the Gotham Vertical.  Two months ago I
> worked a South Carolina station using a KX3 and AlexLoop inside his room
> and
> this impressed me a good bit.    I have a KX3 waiting for me in Connecticut
> and was looking for a portable antenna to use with it.   I still doubted
> the
> AlexLoop would be an adequate antenna.
>
>       Tonight using a friend's AlexLoop inside the shack I worked across
> the
> pond thirteen times between 19:36 and 21:52 using 9 Watts from the K3.
> This antenna measuring just under a meter in diameter was sitting on my
> easy
> chair.   I am pretty impressed and you can take it Hugh that I will
> purchase
> one for my self.   This antenna collapses into a case 41 x 27 x 9 cm in
> size
> and weighs perhaps 1 kg with the case.   Surely a long wire out the window
> would out perform the AlexLoop (magnetic loop antenna) but it is not always
> possible to drop a quarter wave length out the window.    I am not saying
> these QSOs all came easily but many answered on my first call but of course
> it was near the end of the contest and replies were becoming harder to
> obtain.    I believe the AlexLoop with my KX3 is going to prove fun while
> visiting the USA.
>
>
>
>        States and Provinces worked during WAE:
>
> VY2ZM             NS
>
> N8BJQ              OH
>
> K1LZ                 MA
>
> W2LK               NY
>
> NY4A                NC
>
> AA3B                PA
>
> VE3AT              ON
>
>  K1RX               NM
>
> K3WW              PA
>
> KE9KI               IN
>
> W1EQ              CT
>
> NB1N              MA
>
> K3WI              MD
>
>
>
> All of this was done on 20M CW earlier I was on 17M and worked six EU
> stations in a short period of time.   I have also managed two QSOs on 30M.
> The antenna works.   It is not near the equal of a 14AVQ with single ground
> rod but my need is to be able to make CW QSOs when away from home.  The
> power limit for the antennas between ten and twenty watts.   I would think
> no more that ten watts for data modes and perhaps it is better to stay to
> ten watts maximum when on CW.
>
>        Normally from my home QTH in Ireland I run the K3 at 65W to a 4
> element SteppIR up 80 feet.   I run 1500W now allowed in EI for contests.
> There is no comparison between capabilities.   This morning I found nothing
> on 20M with the Alex loop and then went down to 30M to search out a couple
> of QSOs.   It is never the case that 20M is dead with the SteppIR but the
> AlexLoop can travel with me on a plane and I can make QSOs and keep my fist
> active.  QRP is 5W but QRP into a Yagi is not the same as 9W into an indoor
> AlexLoop.    When one has worked most of the DX entities currently active
> this adds a bit of zest.
>
>
>
>                                      73 Doug EI2CN
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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